8 在路上，拿俄米卻對兩個媳婦說：“你們回娘家去吧。你們對自己的丈夫和我都那麼好，願上主賞賜你們；9又願上主賜福給你們，使你們再嫁，好有個依靠。”她說完了，就跟她們吻別，三人都放聲大哭。

 10 她們說：“不，我們要跟你一起回你族人那裏。”

 11 拿俄米卻說：“你們為甚麼還要跟着我呢？ 我還能再生兒子， 等他們長大後作你們的丈夫嗎？ 12不，我的女兒啊，回你們父母家去吧，我已經老得不能再嫁人了。就算今晚我結婚生子，那又能怎樣呢？ 13你們能等着他們長大，而不嫁給別人嗎？女兒啊，當然不能！我比你們苦多了，上主可是親自揮拳擊打我啊。”

 8But on the way, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back to your mothers’ homes. Andmay the Lord reward you for your kindness to your husbands and to me. 9May the Lord bless you with the security of another marriage.” Then she kissed them good-bye, and they all broke down and wept.

 10“No,” they said. “We want to go with you to your people.”

 11But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands? 12No, my daughters, return to your parents’ homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what? 13Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.”

 3 大火在牠們前面燃燒，
烈焰緊隨在牠們後面。
在牠們前面，
大地美如伊甸園，
在牠們後面，
只剩下一片荒蕪；
沒有甚麼能夠逃脫。

 4 牠們看起來像馬，
就像戰馬一樣向前直衝。

 5 看牠們沿着山頂跳躍，
聽牠們喧囂的聲音，
像隆隆的戰車，
像呼嘯的火焰橫掃田野的麥茬，
又像強大的軍隊步入戰場。

 3 Fire burns in front of them,
and flames follow after them.
Ahead of them the land lies
as beautiful as the Garden of Eden.
Behind them is nothing but desolation;
not one thing escapes.

 4 They look like horses;
they charge forward like warhorses.

 5 Look at them as they leap along the mountaintops.
Listen to the noise they make—like the
rumbling of chariots,
like the roar of fire sweeping across a field of
stubble,
or like a mighty army moving into battle.

 27“我要留給你們一份禮物，那就是心靈的平安。我賜給你們的平安，是這個世界無法給予的。因此你們不必憂慮，也不要害怕。28要記住我對你們說過的話：我要走了，但我還要再回到你們這裏來。我要往比我大的父那裏去；你們若真的愛我，就會為此而高興。29我在事情發生前，預先告訴了你們，那麼當事情真正發生時，你們就能相信了。

 27“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. 28Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am. 29I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe.